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160 poems tagged DEATH
Happy birthday In heaven / never gets easier so say, / You should be here with us / To celebrate your day. / / What I would give to hear you call me / daughter, Or here you tap at the door / And shout SCHOOL.. Emelia / Come on, let’s go. / / There’s no sound of your walking stick / Or over excited dogs… sign in to read more »
One year ago / 365 days / My suit is ready, / Your on your way. / / You pull up I break down, / Earth swallow me whole. / In my tears I could drown, / Coz This really ain’t cool. / / To the crem I follow, / My heart is broken. / Sad, Empty and hollow, / My fears have woken. / / But your coffin I carried,… sign in to read more »
Three sixty five days times two…. / That’s another year without you. / My heart is still empty, / I could scream… don’t temp me…. / Since the day heaven called out your name. / / You brightened the day / with the things that you’d say, / your humour was one of a kind, / I inherited your twisted mind… sign in to read more »
I sat at your bedside, / my heart was crushed and sore, / but I did my duty to thee end, / til I could do no more. / Holding back tears I watched you sinking, watching you fade away. / And although my / heart was breaking, / I knew you could not stay. / You left behind some aching hearts that… sign in to read more »
Covid in the country, / And Covid in the state, / Covid has harmed people, / And reworded their fate. / / Devils birthed this virus, / Decimating many – a big number, / Causing mayhem and chaos, / Sending most to lasting slumber. / / / / Uncertain is the lockdown, / Coercing people to feel sore, / Subsist on… sign in to read more »
DEAD AT 17 / What a shock / I am still a teenager / My chapter of an adult robbed / Broad day light / My life cut short / Woke every day preparing for the next phase in life / That was taken in a minute / Monday to Friday / 12 years of education / My life ended in a day / Sleepless night / Hard headache… sign in to read more »
As the disease causes havoc / across the world, souls being / purged. Appreciate the little / moments, smile with those / that love and hate you. / Embrace those that consistently show / you the meaning of love. / Hold tight to your beliefs whether your / GOD is in heaven, within you or around you.… sign in to read more »
…The earth still sees beauty in what kills it, / And those wicked priests, I pray for them! / There were others who cried the same tears, / Begged more from empty eyes… / The earth still sees beauty in what kills it. / ‘Jump, jump!’ / Their voices throbbed as the drums of war, / So grand a song… sign in to read more »
To the whole nations, / Truth should be said. / Who should be the truth all about? / The truth about the death of Jesus Christ. / Son of Mariah and Joseph. / Born to strive, Born to survive. / Born to praise, Born to save. / He said live and I shall die your death, / For his name to be praised. / Die and you… sign in to read more »
It made sense when / we made love on a cold / night. As we enjoy the simple / pleasures that our bodies give / us, tears slowly pouring out / of yours. As you remember the / forced death of your child. / As you further explain your / dark past about your unborn child. / / I cannot help but question, if I… sign in to read more »
Let me express myself through words. / One night my life shall end, the earth will open, / And the ground will swell, Only to preserve my bones. / / Before I dissolve, / Would I have achieved my all, / Enjoyed a life of mystery and cause, / Or drenched my time in effortless activities / That produced no… sign in to read more »
"this is not for you". Truant has always been unreliable! / / this is for the ones who taught their tongues to swirl questions / around their mouths on nights that they couldn't ask / the ones who threw stones into waters but weren't excited by the pattern of their ripples- / so they hit their heads on… sign in to read more »
If you had to chose, I know you would be here with me / There isn't time that passes by without thinking of you, you're constantly on my mind, memories and times we've shared keeps me going. / And I intend to fulfill all your dreams and the plans you had. / / Though you're no longer in this world I… sign in to read more »
1. / / this matatu is a coffin! / / somewhere in Uhuru, she burns incense to musk the smell of underage sex / / and everyone along Keekorok is walking into mirrors in search of freedom. / / what's the english word for someone who has slept in a broken bed with a stranger, / / or, is it awkward to fall… sign in to read more »
Eerie sounds all around deep in / the heart of the graveyard AFTER / MIDNIGHT, shadows appear and / seem to move, heartbeat like / thunder in a state of fright, they're / coming from all around, I try to / scream but can't make a sound / wickedness and evil gnawing / away every bit of life well don't / you… sign in to read more »
Well and you left me way too soon just / like that one sad day out of the blue / I cried every minute of everyday and / every night for about a week or two 'til / I casted that forbidden spell in the / shadow of a harvest moon to bring / you back to life... / Well now and look who's back from / the dead,… sign in to read more »
Underground spillover of sickness / and the stench of death... / men, women and children confined / and condemned, condemned to suffer / even after the hour glass has ran out / of time, there is an un-natural coldness / down the long and winding dark halls / you can still hear their screams / reverberating… sign in to read more »
Well there are many, many / portals and gateways from / this world of the living to / the WORLD UNSEEN / where demons and ghosts / walk among us not only / in the night but in the / daytime too... / Could be they've attached / themselves to you just / because they find you some / kind of an amusing new / kind… sign in to read more »
I grope around in the darkness of his eyes hoping to see a sliver of light, some inkling that there is a part that is human, a seed of compassion left in them. Even in this uncertain moment though I fear for my life, I fervently hold on to the possibility that somewhere in the blackness of his heart… sign in to read more »
Well and does she have some kind of unfinished business / Here and What is she looking for? What makes her weep? / And weep? Does she not know she lives no more? / Oh Lady in White in the darkness in the night. / Lady in White of effervescent light. Reminiscing life / And Lovers return by moonlight. Oh… sign in to read more »
Oh and as the sun begins to set I come alive / The moon comes curling around the mountains / Like a blue lamp in a dusty pink sky... / I step into the velvet of the night that I love / In my red velvet cape and black gloves, still carrying / A torch for some distant past ancient love and / As the wind… sign in to read more »
South Atlantic an ancient and / ominous death trap awaits unexpecting / ships and planes and tonight it has / claimed many lives again...well it is a / mystery that most likely will remain / unexplained buried deep in sin...however / I have heard it's the remnants of Atlantis / and a great and powerful… sign in to read more »
Standing in the among the ruins of what / Used to be a thriving little gold fever town / I swore I heard music and laughter coming / From the half-moon saloon, I walked around / But nobody could be found still I could of / Sworn I just saw a cowboy walk chasing / An Apache in a cloud of dust well I felt a… sign in to read more »
Nightfall and fog off the lake lands. / The ghostly touch of a cold and icy hand / fills you full of fear and loathing. / Creature of the night where are you going? / I follow your shadow through the dark / and cloudy night like a black widow for the / love of your life. / There is a whole lot of mystery… sign in to read more »
It's not a boy's dream / this bitch of a year, boay / to wake up fatherless / longing for the better days / when bitter and better / didn't dwell much further apart / / It's not a father's dream / this bitch of a year, boay / to walk to your daughter's lifeless body / It's no a sleep she is not waking up… sign in to read more »
Well I see them here, I see them there / I see them everywhere but nobody knows / nobody knows I can see and communicate / with the dead but if they did I know they / would think I was a little touched in the head / but I'm not crazy I just have one foot in this / world and one foot in the other... / It's… sign in to read more »
I see you in elegance of night pursuing moon and stars, / the crickets song cherish your pride, / but they say, my fate betray. / How then you in every sent lay, / you mesme… sign in to read more »
In that midst, I see death / In that sight it's eyeing me... / I'm not dead, / And that's what frightens me / Few more seconds / And that would've been me / Them, us; it would've been me! / Just a few more secs. / He would've been dead / But he's not, / And that's what make him mad / Just a few more secs… sign in to read more »
Even when the night air is calm / and still you can hear the wailing / of women from the past that flung / themselves off of WIDOW'S HILL / to the cold, cold ocean below and / legend has it at Collinwood they're / waiting for another jaded woman / to join them at the bottom of / WIDOW'S HILL where their… sign in to read more »
Gladys was a devote Baptist and a / Sweet old lady who never had anything / Bad to say about anybody so when this / Young man moved into the neighborhood / They said you can just look into his eyes / And see he's nothing but bad news but / Gladys said now didn't our Lord say he / Who is without sin cast… sign in to read more »
Its an Exodus / The plush green valleys / The rich red soil you walked on / The rivers that cut through your slums / The fiery bright sun / That braved your mornings in summers / The pitch dark night / That rushed to capture you winter days / The song of birds / Hummed in the beauty of skies above / The noise… sign in to read more »
Moon of gold and a storm on the horizon / My cape like gossamer wings in the wind / Oh starlight, star bright first star I see tonight / Send me somebody to love before the reaper / Comes and takes my life... / Well I know it's out there somewhere maybe / Just across the Tennessee River or the sierra… sign in to read more »
Well these two darlin' boys of 4 and 6 / Were so full of life and as close as two / Brothers could be...Michael and Mark / Of Athens, TN had their fun in the sun / And played their games as most children / Do but one stormy night the dream of / Two small caskets awake Granny Lou / And it wasn't long… sign in to read more »
Dead naked bodies filling up church buildings and home / Cold becoming bodies that are buried on the grave we walk on...earth / Used to live bodies left to thaw in houses called museums / Mummified bones left to dry up and now called skeleton...that once was living being soul's last call...telephone… sign in to read more »
Death died death / A tragic death of unusual death / / Cemetery moaned, howled and wept alone / Its tears all over the ground / Death! Its sole hunter and soul provider / Graveyard's convulsion of shame / / As if death was new / Death was old had to die too / Nothing last forever / / There was nothing new… sign in to read more »
By now you are an ancestor in your own rights / And comforted by the Lord almighty himself / / I was talking about you did you know that / 'Your had renewable energy' / 'You laughed like you had a million in your pocket' / You talk like you had batteries in your back / And your vivacity upset your enemies… sign in to read more »
With a broken heart I say to you / You will remain with me in spirit in whatever I do / I wish that I had the chance to say goodbye / But I hope that your soul is floating in the heavenly sky / To protect and guide me / To open my eyes and let me see / That life is too short / Holding grudges and bad… sign in to read more »
Can you accept the fact? / / To be yourself and attempt not to act / / To impress a member of the opposite gender / / By being romantic and tender / / Can't you see that soon the truth will become clear? / / How will you explain your lies my dear? / / You may attempt to justify your pretentious actions… sign in to read more »
Her light luminously radiates through tired eyes, her body is refreshed as the / night gives birth to the sun and her soul revitalized by the memory of her Fathers promise: / Hebrews 10:22-24 / / How beautiful this flower that is laid before me, / A precious gift that is bestowed upon me. / How it… sign in to read more »
She died in silence, she was never alone / But she died in silence. / She couldn't express that the burden she was / Carrying was too much, / She died in silence, they saw her bright smile / And no one realized she was dying inside. / / She died in silence, afraid of stigma / That mental illness is… sign in to read more »
...God Jesus Christ Almighty / Am down on my luck / Looking at the wall / Watching people fall with a trend / Am stuck like chuck / Dealing with a spell / That will never have an end / For the simple fact that situation is untold / This is really cold / Am buried in a hole / That's why am here writing putting… sign in to read more »
Words can't define how much I miss you / Days are lonely nights are longer / As I lie awake thinking of you / My sister. / / Questions without answers rush into my mind / Why have you left me all alone in so much / Misery? / / I can't get over this pain. / / I need you / I need you most / Why did you leave… sign in to read more »
The signs of time edged on my face / the rivers of sorrow leaving my being / As I lay in state, awaiting oblivion / the stars above to erase my suffering / / Prayers ringing for my soul to rest / Tears dripping, memories flowing / A black cloud turning to white light, / beckoning, whispering my name / I'm… sign in to read more »
Dear granny, we shall always remember you each day; / You've fostered us, and so much of you each can say - / If but life was a crystal, we'd seen through it this dreadful fate, / And learnt to espouse the plight in advance that you are late. / You were weary of ailments and lethargies that had you… sign in to read more »
Dear Grandma / In memory of you my eyes sadly well up with tears, / As I grieve, I can hardly breathe and can hardly think - / Now that your breath has fled the body; one of my fears / Of all times in life: to lose you, to see your body sink / / Slowly, slowly, and slowly away from family and me. / Mind… sign in to read more »
Who I am, why I am here? / I am very happy when I saw my past, / I feel happiness when I saw the nature, trees animal. / Then I saw in the deep blue sky, I feel depth of life, / I ask myself who I am, why I am here? I feel the god. / There are many questions in my mind, but no one satisfied me. / I see… sign in to read more »
Here cries a young woman who recently lost her friend. / She was angry with her friend; she scolded her rage, her rage did end. / A voice from the dead said: "Friend! I know what I did was a great mess; / I'm sorry - and to be honest, I wouldn't ask for your pardon unless / I was at peace. Where I are… sign in to read more »
How can a praying and religious nation be so cruel towards another nation? / You Soldier how dare you point your gun at an innocent child and pull the trigger / How dare you fall on your knees and pray then go and throw your bombs at the innocent people / Somebody save the children of Gaza because it… sign in to read more »
News of your passing has arrived / and I can't help but to feel even more angry with you / angry with the fact that I feel robbed / how can you be just gone without any goodbye / / I am still furious with the fact that you broke my heart now that you are just gone / who do I scream at? / now that you are… sign in to read more »
My Dad plays a game of "hide and seek", / / Though in Intensive Care since a week, / / But I know He is still sleeps by my side, / / He still makes me happy by elephant ride / / Putting me on his bare back to continue play / / Taking his strong arms to go fast or to delay / / And to repeat… sign in to read more »
I love lonely hearts. / I hate faithful partners. / I love married women and men they are my easy target. / Temptation is my trend. / I hate it when people block me. / I love teenagers who are going through adolescence and life challenges. / I hate it when they abstain. / Guess who? / / I lie but who doesn'… sign in to read more »
Hand in hand, / Girlfriends and boyfriends, / Walking along the pavement, / One among the flock, is alone in lament. / Has anyone got a clue? / Why the lonely sky is blue? / / On a young and delicate ball night, / Handsome dandies on one side, / Gorgeous damsels on the other, / The sound of "ooohs" and "… sign in to read more »
Days ebbing in time's scythe, / My Blue clouds venting out red rain, / In my heart's furrow, sunken thy love / Liquid prisoner pent to the walls of my barren eyes, / My love's petal wilting in time's devouring hands / / Gold chain without pearls, thy smile / Like Waves to sea, thy wrinkles / Black moon… sign in to read more »
I NEVER ALLOWED THE DEVIL TO COMPLETELY CRUSH MY LIFE TO THE GROUND / / It was on Friday 2009, November 27th when I last saw and spoke to you / The man of my life, a father to my two boys, a friend and loving husband / Ooh Lord: why you have taken the gift of my life away from me / / Although I was not… sign in to read more »
Our Cultures Forgotten, / Mother Tong Never Spoken, / Equality never shared and Friendship never cherished. / / We are lost by our fathers, abandoned by our mothers / laughed at by our neighbors, taken grant-age by our friends / and even killed by our loved ones. / / Our Souls are no more treasured, Money… sign in to read more »
Speak of politics then you shall be speaking about a nightmare without a shield of protection. / It is humans who are politicians but men still fear. Politics is a definition of government in control, / government who works for the people and not supposed to be feared by the people but men still speak… sign in to read more »
Depression of mind / Soul needed peace, but my / Heart was slowly beating / More and more I become speechless / I tried to whisper in your ears, but u could not hear me / how things will be without my presence in this World of sorrow and pains where humans don't uplift one another, but look down to each… sign in to read more »
If I should die / let me be a legend to be remembered / let the worlds bow / at the sound of my name / let all shout that I was a hero / let me die victorious / not just crupulous / let me die a brave woman / let me die in power / / If this is my last day / this poem / is my fighting chance / it's my form of… sign in to read more »
Taxi crowded. / Gun shot sounded. / Small boy wounded. / Old ladies shouted. / Small girls got scared. / Small boys got fascinated. / Old men got shocked. / / A car went past fast; / Chased by police; / A transgression / In procession. / / Wounded boy screamed / With pain. / Taxi stopped. / Boy looked at his… sign in to read more »
Freedom was here / We are told / She stood right there / A sight to behold / Strong and mighty / Like the Drakensberg / / Did we slumber / Through the thunder / That heralded her coming? / Did we blink / And missed her mischievous wink? / / Marikana tears of blood / Mourn the death of the noble tree / Killed for… sign in to read more »
though I trod with worn muscles, / trapped in my coffin-bodied body, / though the morning no longer have good mornings, / with remnants and remains of my breath / I shall unleash deep, dig that force / though my face is masked with gloom / these scattered pieces are the witness / witnessing resilient soul… sign in to read more »
There comes a day, an end, / one day nothing will matter / no more sunrise to dance to, / no more glowing nights of stars / to cherish the night, / no sounds of wild birds to serenade / the lover's moments of intimacy. / / Money, treasure, wealth all gone / drowned, swept down the drain, / life shall cease… sign in to read more »
Secretly, I crave immortality / Stuck in seemingly never ending bliss / In the cool breeze / Of sweet summer springs / / But I am a gingerbread man / Stuck in a chase to prevail / Running from the inevitable dawn / When my breathe shall fail / / Will I crumble? / Or will I run forever / Or will I be… sign in to read more »
(dedicated to the late Happy Sindane on the day of his funeral) / / You were born into the ugly brutal world / where a rhino's horn was more than your worth / / You were lost from the onset / A black mother was your curse / removed from priviledge at birth / too black and unhappy to be white / / why did… sign in to read more »
The water spilt... / The sun took cover in the mountains depths / Darkness made his way to inner land and into our home. / The joy that came with the morning rise, / Was sucked in dry by the sponge that rested in our joyful stream, / The smiles were wiped away; / The only light we had was the comfort from… sign in to read more »
What is love - pray do tell, / I seek it dearly, but what do I know? / The vision's set, the road's mapped out, / But where do I start, where do I go? / Why do I dare? Why do I care? / Do I care? Oh, surely I must... / Why do I stand? Why here did I land? / Where is the reason, what answer do I trust? / I'm… sign in to read more »
"They do not fear god, they're bad people" / He said, counting their dead, fingers red on the trigger / Bang, the gun fires a staccato death blow / Iron sight, a mounting blight, lead in flight down the street / / "They do not fear god, they're bad people" / She wept as her child swept up oaths kept with… sign in to read more »
The years have past like sand in the wind, / Fluttering alone through the dessert of time. / As the rush of life slows ever down, / And recedes to rust and grime. / / The chances that came, like fateful gifts, / Lie littered among the broken dreams, / Wishes and desires that glittered like gold, / Lay… sign in to read more »
My soul reflects a woeful ether, / An arid plain borne of dust, / Landmines go as dominoes fall, / Ever wavers but never to rust. / / Cold hard steel on bare flesh, / I flit back to "reality," / Icy climax then ceaseless low, / I flit back to fantasy. / / I layer all worlds but exist in none, / Sworn to both… sign in to read more »
While he talked of Sartre, stains, and weather / He lowered his face in-between / To the cubic vase with a drooping flower / Near the antique ashtray- partly used / Imbued / Suffused with smells of ephemerons / In rolls of… sign in to read more »
Death, stupid death / Have you seen Dambudzo's ghost / Lingering in the streets of Masvingo / Stupid Death what have you gained / In his grossly untimely death / Are you a victor now / That he is a memory / Slowly and painfully washing away / Tell me Mr Stupid Death / Stare me in the eye if you got wealthier… sign in to read more »
To burn so bright and die young / What a tragedy, to rise to life's apex / And shine so bright you blind a star / Only to die in the prime of your brightness / / See a star in its rush of brightness / Shines so bright it kills itself / And vanish a spark-less gold dust / Never to shine again not even dimly… sign in to read more »
Hey woman, wonderfully and fearfully made. / A flower that blossoms in all seasons, areas and atmospheres. / / Your scent gives breath of fresh air / Your presence brightens the day / / Woman your range and brand does not end / uprooted and planted elsewhere it does not change you, it makes you even… sign in to read more »
Non violent flames ripple / An already burdened heart with pain / When death secrets a loved d… sign in to read more »
Oh what joy / it is to create / Another life, from love / to grow within / / Oh how tiny you are / barely an inch / But what a big / change you bring to me / / If only you could listen / maybe you do / If only I could speak / to my adorable you / / I am committed to protect / you from this strange world / I… sign in to read more »
My Dear Friend, / / So much I would do, so much I would give just to see you again. / / I need you.. / / I need to know how you are, I still worry, though I know where you are, is nothing like earth. I know you're happy but I just want to hear it from you, how are you really my dear friend?… sign in to read more »
To support a man's faith / Is to see the weight upon his leg / And call it a crutch / See him starved of hope / And feed him the illusion of meat / / You say I do no understand / That my mind cannot accept / The value of what you command / But I know well enough to reject / / I know the starving child / Set… sign in to read more »
If darkness came walking / through my door, / And took me by the hand / so I could blink no more, / Would you know that He loves you? / Would you know that He cares? / Would you know that He sent me / to thank you for always being there? / / If you slowly begin to cry / and realise my body no longer has heat… sign in to read more »
He holds his bat with all his might, / The bowlers bowl with full of fright. / He is the man, he is the king, / He smashes every ball out of the ring. / / Once he entered the pitch by chance, / And changed the game in a single glance. / He is the man depended on hard times, / For he is the king of all the… sign in to read more »
Theres an apparition of a man standing outside that house in Henley drive / He stares at you as you go by as if your dead and he's alive / / He is waiting and has been waiting for 101 years patiently / For his love to return from the Shirtwaist Triangle factory / / She was slight of build but big on… sign in to read more »
Fresh from the incubator... we come out a box, / Newly born and eager to burn. / The doctor's smack lights the wick, / A weak flicker is the start. / / In his teens the wind bends the flame to go with the flow, / But flickering moments of dark then light / Teach it straight to grow / And that the way of… sign in to read more »
In my mind I see them, children of the land, / Black as darkest Africa, standing with an outstretched hand. / I see their stomach's bloated, signs of despair, / Yet on I go with my life and couldn't even care. / / I smell the stench of flesh as vultures have their meal, / Yet my heart's turned hard...… sign in to read more »
So many times we've decided, "It's time we split up!", / But then we find we just can't give up. / It's not for each other; it's for the children we care, / On them it's unfair, / They stand in the corner helpless and bare. / / There's so much to remember my daughter, my son, / But all I can think of is… sign in to read more »
I felt the stab of pain / From a brother in the hood / One seeking to rise to fame / I thought he understood. / / I taste the bitter in what he said / As he spits the words out / "I wish you were dead" / He just verified my doubt. / / I hear the cries for pity / In our own neighborhood, / Not across the… sign in to read more »
Pitter-patter; tears on the roof, / The world sleeps knowing not the grief, / And in dawning hours the gage is proof / Of a tear shed for life... oh so brief! / / The face of the sky is darkly troubled, / Unnoticed by the sleeping world below / Unconcerned nor woken by the tear drops doubled / Weeping o'er… sign in to read more »
Fresh from the incubator... we come out a box, / Newly born and eager to burn. / The doctor's smack lights the wick, / A weak flicker is the start. / / In his teens the wind bends the flame to go with the flow, / But flickering moments of dark then light / Teach it straight to grow / And that the way of… sign in to read more »
The steam that rises from the shell / Mists up the scope lens / A steady hand etches a heart / Through which the other bleeds / / A tattered pass absorbs the flood / Inches from the silent hand / That reached beneath his thread bare coat / A white flag not received / / The towel-head becomes another scratch… sign in to read more »
"To my Love"... I start the letter / Which I know will be a curse, / For we said we'd be together, for better... / And for worse. / / Each line that I pen / Forces a tear from my eye, / For I reminisce of back-then / Before I knew I was about to die. / / Ah, the warmth of summer days, / Before receiving the… sign in to read more »
I pull open the cover, / a trap door to the deck. / "Weigh the anchor!" / and with a splash the adventure begins. / / "Trim your sails!" / and the curtain flaps behind me. / The bow of Old Salt splits the waves / and I wipe the spray from my glasses. / / There's mutiny aboard the ship. / With cutlasses drawn… sign in to read more »
In the night a stranger walked by the famous ruins of old / Where folklore stories of horror and pain were told / The moon illuminates the silver light on the statues of gold / He walks between the walls / In the big rooms and halls / Hearing the screams and howls / He slept and he hears those cries / The… sign in to read more »
Here it is, / just seems so, / it has ended, but leaves in it emptiness from within, / waiting for something to close the gap of which my heart has seen, / here it is, just beginning, let it blossom let it grow, / yet, I don't want to see its fruits, / for I'm not sure of what I sowed this time, but I… sign in to read more »
It's half past eleven, he's bound to leave, / She's holding back tears, she whispers: "just stay"; / He cannot reveal any reason to grieve / And says: "I'll be back, I will see you some day". / / Some day in Novemer is meant to be spring / That comes after February's damn thirtieth night, / When fantasy… sign in to read more »
Sometimes, all I want to do is look up to the heavens, and call out your name. / / Earth is a lonely place! / / An uphill walk, with steep emotions. / / "Heaven, open up your gates, embrace me. / And let me, like a child, dance to your melodies. With no care in the world. / / I have come to sit on my… sign in to read more »
Don't search for apples anymore. / The apple tree has died. / It gave all the apples that it had. / Now it is nothing more than a piece of wood. / Nobody has interest for an apple tree without apples. / Nobody gives it some water to survive. / Not even the dry mother earth. / Nobody. / This is the fate for… sign in to read more »
There is a door. / A unique door. / It is our personal door from our small home, / in our small neighborhood. / We use this door only twice. / Once to come and once to leave. / / This door takes us outside to the big world. / When we go out, / The door closes and never opens again. / Maybe somebody can… sign in to read more »
I stare at the dark face of death, / With eyes so wide that the lids of my eyes feel numb. / I stare straight in to the cornea-reddened eyes of the one that leaves empty spaces in the hearts of loved ones, / By stealing away the souls of their beloved. / With a promise of either a better place; / or the… sign in to read more »
For more clearer the view could not be / in mind, in soul, in existence of eternity not seen / the knowing of the end that is taken with / a breath of the ocean waves now buried / Memories etched for ever not to be erased / the final release no more holding back / the pain not forgotten just softened… sign in to read more »
Bossom full of explosive feelings / Upside, downside, sideways / Who can tell? / / Turmoil turned on and then off / In the confusion of it all / / Can I believe what is told / With no evidence lacking / the truth bears witness to it all / No more can I hold, or touch, or kiss, / or converse with my one true… sign in to read more »
I'm sorry, Tinky / that it was me, / who let you go out / one last time. / We always let you / go out at night. . / you always came back. / / I didn't know that Mommy / wasn't going to let you / go out...she didn't tell / me until after I found / you the next morning. / / If only we hadn't taught you / to meow… sign in to read more »
It creeps through the mud / Low slinking stalking beast / Coiling hind legs power flood / With teeth it claims life leased / / The green eyed predator / Silky moves like its fur / The garden's terror / Sleeps with a purr / / Claws dig in skin as it dreams / Of its day of quiet hunting / A mouse chittering… sign in to read more »
Inside the walls of Avonlea / Where babies once were born / There is a sound so lonely / As the children's lives were torn / / The babies cry inside these walls / If you listen really close / But don't tarry too long to listen / Or you'll become a ghost / / For though they are just children / Something… sign in to read more »
You that made me laugh / Went through so much in your heart / Suffered so much pain / But very little did you complain / You always carried a smile / It made all of us reconcile / With the joy and laughter that you did project / How could we be sad at the best / It then did happen that day / When your life… sign in to read more »
Cowardice they call it - those people who don't know, / To commit the act of taking your own life, / But who really knows beside those who have committed, / What really made them thrust that knife. / What went through their minds during that moment? / What could life have thrown in their path so… sign in to read more »
We're now living in the end of times, / Through every hour there's a thousand crimes. / Finally, it is near, the end of days, / The race of man and their selfish ways. / Soon everything will turn to gloom, / And all will be left to face great doom. / Life in entirety will diminish and fade, / By natures… sign in to read more »
Am a man with a master plan, so call me a players boss. / In-between their legs that's where I want to be / I flesh cash and promise them a world they have never been too / / Misled by friends, Fooled by cash / The car I drive and status I hold. / Ignorant doesn't begin to describe me / The charm and… sign in to read more »
You came to me / And / Found me on my own space- quit / You assaulted my thoughts / With / Your charisma / Danced your way into my soul...You / You came to me / As a friend / And / As a committed lover / -Yet- / Omitted that feminine cliché' / "Till death do us apart" / Both of us / We were locked in that lonely… sign in to read more »
Tonight he came, there is the smell of death in the air, the colour of blood in the sky and it's only fair to fear him. / / Brothers laying in their shallow graves, Fathers no more brave, children hiding in caves too scared to cry, tears drying / on their face, clearly he has been here. / / He goes… sign in to read more »
What if I fell into a deep sleep, not knowing the depth of my capacity? / What if the darkness that surrounds, transcends into shadows I've followed / What if this reality exists in a dream, I have awoken from before / What if my words, my thoughts, my dreams are a vision pronounced / What if this force… sign in to read more »
What would happen to you? / When I stop breathing? / When I lose the rhythm of my heart beat? / When you can't hear the words I speak? / When my eyes don't open / And you can't gaze into my soul so deep? / When my body is cold / And you can't use me for heat? / The day I die / What would happen to you?… sign in to read more »
I established myself as a great thinker of originality, / but in my community it was only viewed as insanity, / then a psychologist said to me that I've got a touch of OCD, / of an art so beautiful called poetry. / / Even so, pen and paper still could not be heard, / I could not find people with the same… sign in to read more »
Do you hear my silence out there / You are the only one that cares / So I thought instead you fled / I know you did leave walking away like a thief / Did you not say that you would stay / That was my belief / Listen to my heart beat / Or was it when I feel off my feet / Did you not want to listen to my… sign in to read more »
Close your eyes / Take a deep breath / Count to three / You'll be alright she said / / She led me like a sheep to the axe / A lifeless table and chair stood in front of me / But what was on the table sent shudders through me / A cold silver revolver stared me blankly in the eyes / / Go on she said spinning… sign in to read more »
I'm all alone in bed again / Thinking about the day ahead / Wondering what it will bring / Wondering if the birds will sing / / For tomorrow I'll wake / And be careful of the choices I make / Tomorrow I'll smile / But for now / / I'm all alone in bed again / Holding my hands together I end with amen… sign in to read more »
I hear the sound of the organ, / so I start thinking of you, / the one who once crossed the ocean, / and left here out of the blue. / / I hear the sound of the organ, / I feel both happy and sad. / I see your boat on the water / while I recall what we've had. / / I'm sure you don't feel like talking, / for… sign in to read more »
Just wanted you to know... / I missed you yesterday / I miss you... today / And ill miss you tomorrow / / Time doesn't heal / Trust me I know / Time brings separation / Separation brings closure / in some ways I guess / But time doesn't heal / / This I know for... / My heart still screams your name / My hand… sign in to read more »
I was meant to make you smile. Burn your oath into me, walk the plank, I've taken over. I tread lightly, the pavement won't break my strides. Can't you feel my pulse? Hand to chest, I can't believe what I've become. This motion to end my war, I can't see past the clouds. I won't stop breathing. Oh,… sign in to read more »
For a long time I thought I had none, / for a long time I did not think of him / It was as if he didn't exist. / I didn't pray for him, / didn't wish to see him, / didn't want to know him / simply because he abandoned me / simply because he wanted nothing to do with me / sometimes I wonder if he ever… sign in to read more »
I have met the line, where truth and lies start to fade. My whole life, I have hidden the darkness inside me. What happens when this phase ends, and my wings unfold? I have mixed truth and deception, where is my place to hide in all this madness? When does my heart start to beat again? I am afraid… sign in to read more »
Be glad, be joyful, but be humbled by your neighbors' surroundings, / Be jolly, smile broadly and honestly, but allow yourself to show humility, / Be happy, stay honest, uphold integrity with a gently ironed fist, but be true to yourself first. / / Because in the end, a volatile spirit will corrupt and… sign in to read more »
the demons of tobacco, / came over my uncle. / they brought nothing, / but pain and sickness. / / they were nothing, / but spirits of smoke, / deception and anger, / hollows of despair and death. / / they sweep over the earth, / in search of victims, / to torture with their addiction, / fear, confusion,… sign in to read more »
The new leaf sprouts into existence, greeting the universe / Uncurling, revealing, playing out to nature's wishes, / The warm rays of the sun touches her veins, she stretches, / Her siblings try to reach her in their attempts to nurse. / / A caterpillar too submits to nature's insistent laws, / Chewing… sign in to read more »
A razor-sharp sliver of ray slits the dark and leaden sky, / Unzips it slowly and deliberately to reveal a hue of orange and red, / A fish eagle calls soulfully, mournfully, echoing in his head, / The screen enlarges, brightens, figures are born, change and die. / The dark sky swallows itself, spews out… sign in to read more »
The morning rays dances across the shimmering seas, / Reaches land and laps up the sweet dew served by the dawn. / Dancing across the fields, it hears my persistent pleas, / And within me despite my duress, new hope begins to spawn. / And as the warm rays my fears and neurosis begin to still, / I arise… sign in to read more »
The tired sun barely whispers "Goodbye" to the distant hills, / Than they turn from green to orange and then to silhouettes. / That insidious nagging thought my mind cajoles and flirts, / And like the water from my shaking hand all the days hope spills. / A vicious cycle - the knowledge of the… sign in to read more »
Just before dawn on a lonely shore, / I trudge the sands walked by many before, / The water entices me with her cool glaze, / And I find myself swept back by her - in a daze. / I look around me and all I see is ocean and gloom, / Oh! An overwhelming sense of loss and impending doom. / The darkness… sign in to read more »
Into a million pieces the lightning shattered the night sky; / Incessantly the thunder rolled, awaking every living being. / Every nerve in his brain, circuiting the news, he could not deny; / Cold, clinical, concise thoughts ricocheted, as played out previously in a dream. / The scorched earth… sign in to read more »
I wish my heart / wasn't so heavy / so full of pain / I wish my heart / could feel emotion again / This heart has endured / more than it can take / of sadness, despair / of peoples selfish ways / A heart that only wanted / a family a true home / A heart that suffered greatly / now just wants to be alone / A… sign in to read more »
Based on actual events- As I lay here, in the dark. Staring up at the ceiling. Trying to force myself into sleep. I begin to hear them. The ghosts of the night. I hear the soft footsteps of the dead coming to life a mere five feet from my bed. I hear them in the kitchen. The drawers that hold the… sign in to read more »
I actually thought you loved me / You told me that every day / How was I so blind as not to see / That you could do me wrong in such a way / / I gave you my love, my heart, and soul / But yet you just tossed them aside / I flew over oceans on wings I feared most / Just to find the deadly secrets that you… sign in to read more »
Frost now covers my once loving heart / Ice replaces my flowing warm core / Hatred is tearing my caring apart / Nothing is the same as it once was before / / All my good intentions have grown sour / My happiness has taken a turn for the worst / My evilness is growing stronger by the hour / My joy is now… sign in to read more »
I hear her at night, she calls my name, when I am trying to sleep / Her voice so calm, so clear, so crisp, it runs through my mind so deep / I've heard her before so many times, but never did I listen / Now it seems I hear every word, as my eyes start to glisten / / Come with me she asks so soft, let me… sign in to read more »
That fateful day you died / The whole family sat down and cried / It happened out of nowhere / For you I did care / / Very fast death did take you away / Instead of giving us just one more day / A curtain of sadness fell over my eyes / Like rain clouds fill the skies / / I did not know what to think / My… sign in to read more »
The cold grey dawn comes through the window as I get in the bed / The night has been long, and right now I feel as I was dead / The tequila they poured, and the vodka that followed / I cannot believed that it was a fifth that I swallowed / / My head is in misery and my body is aching / I try to get warm… sign in to read more »
Once again I am haunted by the chilling air that surrounds me / The bridge is long and no traffic at hand as I look into the sea / To jump into the darkness below and have my life flash before my eyes / I know that halfway down I will want someone to hear my cries / / But they won't hear my muffled… sign in to read more »
These devils and demons that rush through my brain / Night after night, they come again and again / I try to erase them and still they come in the night / They chase me, they haunt me and give me such a fright / / In the mornings still sleepy, my head aching all over / I wish for once in my dreams, I… sign in to read more »
If the darkness came walking / Through my door / And took me by the hand / So I could blink no more / Would you know that He loves you? / Would you know that He cares? / Would you know that He sent me / To say thank you for always being there? / / If you slowly begin to cry / And realise my body no longer… sign in to read more »
Now that you have crossed to the other side / Away from the distorted line called life / Just a little bit far from my eye sight / Just an inch from my physical reach / / Now that you are rested in that garden of remembrance / The smell of your skin still feeds my nostrils / Nourishes my brain / The… sign in to read more »
rocks that schattered my window frames, broken glass all over the floor, I wonder why the misery was for, / / the space that separate me and her was now filled with tears of past traumer relation, cheats cheated love for no reason, maybe just immoral, / / I see them clouds gathering on my room, dark… sign in to read more »
Been walking these streets, my car's sudden broken, damn piece of crap / Tried to change the tyre but someone stole the bleeming jack / So I kicked it in its bonnet and spat on its windscreen, I'm defiant / Tonight I'm gonna get ya with my tyre iron / / Dark streets, run down flats full of pimps, ho's… sign in to read more »
I sit here at this computer / tears rolling down my face / as I sit here / remembering you... / / I never thought you would die / I never thought you wouldn't be coming home. / I sit here crying / remembering you. / / But I do know that soon / I will be with you / in the heavens above. / / So until then,… sign in to read more »
It was meant to happen different, / He wasn't supposed to die, / It wasn't meant to happen so soon, / I wanted him to stay a little longer, / I didn't want him to leave us. / I didn't get to say goodbye to him, / I wanted him to come back home but not like that, / I want to turn back time and make him… sign in to read more »
Dear Death / / Today let us put love / on the love that died / Let us forgive the rose of longing / for its thorns which injured / let us roam the land of our insisters / sink in the earth / to touch the seed of the rose / whose leaves like mine / die outside its garden / / Dear Death / / Today life lives by… sign in to read more »
The World lost its eldest Child today / In a white sheet he was wrapped and driven away / He was the King of Pop, adored, loved and self-styled / He showed us that it's OK to let out the inner child / / "You were the outcast, the dreamer and underdog / Who overcame it all to be the King of Pop / We will… sign in to read more »
When in your eyes It looks / And there is no way to avoid it; / When in your nose it ricks / Sending shudders to your stomach pit; / Nor tears nor fears no longer work / To redeem you from certain fate, / For the die is cast- your wake / On this earth proceeds; for you're late. / Oh, if there's a way to… sign in to read more »
As I wait for your car / To pitch up outside, / I dread the words / That I've cried. / Into my heart / A knife has been stabbed, / It's easier for me / To just be mad. / My heart is breaking, / My tears are running, / My world is shaking, / My friend isn't coming. / / I know it's hard / To look in my your eyes… sign in to read more »
Light requires a source, / Darkness requires nothing; / Yet / While the light shines, / Darkness cannot overcome it. / Why is this? / / Life requires a source, / Death requires nothing; / Yet / While there is life, / Death cannot destroy it all. / Why is this? / / If there is no God, / Why is there light and… sign in to read more »
I grew up loving her, / I now can't see her anymore, / I grew up with her, / I loved her every day, / My heart still longs for her every day, / Because she was and is my friend, / where is she? / / I grew in her arms, / I can't feel her arms around me anymore, / She use to lie, cheat and to fight my battles… sign in to read more »
Today I will remember / What it is like to cry / Today I will remember / What it is like to love / Today I will remember / What it is like to darken / Today I will remember you / / Tomorrow I will forget / What it is like to laugh / Tomorrow I will forget / What it is like to smile / Tomorrow I will forget… sign in to read more »
I lied today, / I had the truth from you / I pretended not to know / But somehow you lied for me today / / I cried today, / I sobbed my heart out / I let all my tears disappear / But somehow you cried for me today / / I died today, / I watched my life fade / I finally closed my eyes / But somehow you died for… sign in to read more »
If I went to sleep tonight / And closed my shadowed green eyes, / If I went to sleep tonight / Never again to see the beautiful blue skies, / Would you cry that tear for me? / / If you woke up tomorrow / And I wasn't there to love your heart, / If you woke up tomorrow / And I wasn't there to stop the dart… sign in to read more »
We who break the bonds of flesh / and carry deep our ties of regret / are bound to things you cannot see / like all the love we wished would be / / For we are all but simple beings / who find a way to live our dreams / for we who walk this world so cold / will always seem to be alone / / So as I write these… sign in to read more »
Round and round arise at all / hide behind thy arousal, / of faith and fear completed / against this childish love. / / Chine the edible arrogance / that gads inside her head, / you... Further intensify my desire / to be amongst the bearers. / / Amend my flaws of blessing...my love, / bring me to concern and… sign in to read more »
I dreamt for you, / of paradise on earth / Carpeted streets, / with nothing like dust / Of flowing streams, / to quench your thirst / In return you give, / your love to me / In turn I keep our promise I made. / / I crossed ridges, / rivers and hills / No matter the price, / I paid the bills / As your love I… sign in to read more »
Some memories have grown / To be full of sorrows, / Of friends and foes / Who cannot see tomorrow, / As we wait for him / Our turn to follow. / / As soon as you are born / You begin to die, / Mankind has been told / Many repeated times, / As no man knows / when you come for him. / / Our cereals and grains… sign in to read more »
Men have fought battles at night / Others have dug trenches to hide / Women and children ran to the hills / For each one of them a way to be a live / To each one from you the reason to die . / / Two rivers away came the screams / One more is gone, / many other to follow / It was not a dream, / that one we… sign in to read more »
5th May 2006, night it was / You had to go I had to stay / Like an other ordinary day / I heard a hooter from the police car / Duty calls!! There you went... / / Morning came, a dark cloud had appeared / Tragedy had occurred / Tears fell, pain took over / Dreams fell, young you were / But had to go… sign in to read more »
Some days I want to give it all up and quit / And yet I stick thru and bear with it / I'm starting to like the person I'm becoming / Instead of the person I was / From my problems I was running / I always knew at the end of the tunnel there was a light / And now that I am closer / The light is starting to… sign in to read more »
When I pause to reflect / Suddenly my eyes are filled with tears / Sadness and pain conquers my heat / Guilty conscious reside in my mind / / What do I do with these feelings? / Hopelessness and helplessness collide / Causing my eyes to be filled with tears / Yet they say a man does not cry / / If and only… sign in to read more »
When my hour of departure draws ny, / I want to run out and meet it with a smile. / All the joy and laughter from my days of life, / silently embraced in satisfaction by my fading heart. / Wings of my soul harmoniously flapping in anticipation, / awaiting the placid glide that leads to my final… sign in to read more »
If it was up to me you would have been walking on air today, / Read it out now you’re here the very next day. / What a dunce assumed had gotten for what I prayed,good lord its just an other who wanted to play. / Is it my love that she wants or just a place to stay, / I have got both said the prey. / At… sign in to read more »
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